Hub for vehicle-wheels



(ModeL) W. G. MERGER.

HUB FOR VEHICLE WHEELS.

' No. 329,061. Patented 0st. 27, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM G. MERGER, OE BURLINGTON, IOWA.

HUB FOR VEHICLE-WHEELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,061, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed January 16, 1Si-5. Serial No. 153,104. (ModcL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM G. MERCER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hubs for Vehicle-Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to vehicle-wheel hubs; and it consists in the construction hereinafter pointed out.

In the'annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a wooden hub to which my invention is ap plied; Fig. 2, a side View, partly broken away, of the sleeve.

The letter A indicates a wooden hub having the cylindrical end a, conical bearing a, and the approximately-cylindrical spoke portion a". On this hub is to be placed the sleeve J3. This sleeve has the portions e, f, and c to cor- 20 respond with portions (1, a, and. a of the hub A. Portion e is continued into the point-band b, and portion a into the flange c.

On the inner face of the conical portion f of the sleeve B are corrugations b, terminating at 12 b and made integral with such sleeve. When'the latter is placed upon the wooden hub, these corrugations do not enter endwise into the wood; but as the sleeve comes down on the wood such corrugations press with their edges into the latter.

I am aware that hub-bands have had ribs on cylindrical portions of their length.

What I claim is The hub A, having the cylindrical portions a and a and conical portion a, in combination with the sleeve 13, having cylindrical portions 1) and 0 and conical portion f, the latter having corrugations on its inner face, as set forth.

- WILLIAM G. MERGER.

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W. M. FORNEY, W. PENROSE.' 

